The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-12-30
AConcord, New Hampshire, paper

concord, new hampshire, paper
says the hosiery business, which has
recently been one of the leading indus
tries of the state, is now in 9 democrat
lied condition. At Laconia 1000 en-
ployes are idle. The explanation is
given that the Branson knitter enables
every farm hand that can scare up
enough money to buy a machine to do
his W knitting.
Manufacturers are giving a great
deal more consideration to the question
OF fire insurance than they ever have,
and engineers, architects and others
are discussing what is the best possible
ire-proof material. Nothing better has
yet been agreed upon than terra Gotta
aud concrete carefully ihcasing iron or
wooden roofs, walls and floors.
A Windsor, Vermont, cotton manu-
facturer has decided to transfer his fac
tory to Mobile. Alabama, with 1900
spind]es, $50 looms and Sc cards, and
water and steam power will be used.
This protector says it is only a question
of time when all the cotton mills will
have to get nearer to The staple.
Middlemen in various branches Of
trade are beginning to suffer from
sharp competition. Five shoe jobbing
houses in Baltimore will go out of bus
mess at the end OF this month, the rea-
son being small margins. On the other
hand, joobing houses are springing up
in the west.
A general shoemakers' strike is
threatened in Cincinnati on account of
the discharge of two men. The work
ingmen have agreed to not hold shop
or special. meetings during working
hours. Their joint board of arbitration
consists Of fourteen, seven from each
side.
Several companies are preparing to
place contracts for freight brakes, and
it has been estimated that the Westing-
house company will shortly locate ex-
tenstve works in Il natural gas belt
near eittsburg and enter upon the
ultluul tlSllllC VI bldhSS Ou IL lul w sCdit.
The electricians are still at hammer
and tongs over the relative values OF
the alternating current machine and
the continuous current machine. Both
machines are being steadily improved,
and there is a contest between them for
the patronage of the public.
A recent writer is out with tho rem
ody Of manual training as a cure for
social and industrial problems. West
efn manufacturers are taking to the
technical-school idea, and next year a
large school will be started in Chicago
and one at ST, Louis.
Ten thousand spindles are to be put
in at Ellenboro, N. G., 500, 600 opera
house at Atlanta, Ga, an $500 600 cot.
ton factory at Mount Airy. N. c., u
large block of buildings at Bessemcr,
Alta, and q $500, 900 cotton mill n,
Vicksburg, MISS.
The extraordinary demand for coke
has led to quite Il craze for putting uI
coke ovens. Within the past thirty
DAYS 5000 ovens have been projected
BOD near Uniontowu. 800 in Somerse,
county, GO ut Sanford, 200 at Ursina,
and SO on.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad com
pany VIII build at IFS shops this winter
5000 freight cars, 1000 flat cars and
200 locomotives. Large shops are to
be erected at Montreal, and additional.
labor is to be employed.
In the several carpet-mills of New
York thare are 2700 females employed
WHO average S. per week. They al
belong 10 Assembly No. 1876. They
are said to be about the best dressed
working girls in the city.
The silk manufacturers through
Pennsylvania are having difficulty il
finding a sufficient supply of skilled la
boz. The morkmen object to leaving
he LARGE cities and roinp info country